Independently Published
The Trumpet-Major Illustrated
Product Code:
9798462904714
ISBN13:
9798462904714
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$26.13
The Trumpet-Major Illustrated
$26.13
he Trumpet-Major is a novel by Thomas Hardy published in 1880, and his only historical novel. It concerns the heroine, Anne Garland, being pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the eponymous trumpet major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Bob, a flighty sailor; and Festus Derriman, the cowardly nephew of the local squire. Unusually for a Hardy novel, the ending is not entirely tragic; however, there remains an ominous element in the probable fate of one of the main characters.The novel is set in Weymouth during the Napoleonic wars;[1] the town was then anxious about the possibility of invasion by Napoleon.[2] Of the two brothers, John fights with Wellington in the Peninsular War, and Bob serves with Nelson at Trafalgar. The Napoleonic Wars was a setting that Hardy would use again in his play, The Dynasts, and it borrows from the same source material.[3]Edward Neill has called the novel an attempt to repeat the success of his earlier work Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), after the limited success of his intervening works
| Author: Thomas Hardy |
| Publisher: Independently Published |
| Publication Date: Aug 23, 2021 |
| Number of Pages: 350 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: NA |
| ISBN-13: 9798462904714 |
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